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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — In a story May 6 about the resignation of the chief financial officer of North Carolina's Medicaid program, The Associated Press erroneously reported the CFO's name. His name is Rick Brennan, not Keith Brennan.

State legislators expressed irritation during a meeting in March that Medicaid officials failed to inform them quickly that only about two-thirds of the $150 million in savings demanded by this year's state budget would be realized.

Brennan said some cuts delivering for the savings were delayed while others were simple mistakes. About $20 million in budgeted "savings" for 2013 was from cuts that lawmakers had already implemented in 2012.